Running
fromThe Atlantic
3 weeks agoThe Wonder of Watching People Run
Mass marathons and communal spectating create shared joy and spectacle, revealing endurance events as powerful social rituals connecting runners and spectators.
The duo describe their installation The Audience as "a meditation on spectatorship in the age of image overload and attention deficit". To this end, they have converted the former council chamber into an auditorium peopled with a smattering of eerily life-like mannequins who eat popcorn and gaze at a screen depicting a miasma of blurred images but with clearly audible sound.